The story of the innocently killed moose is inevitably moving towards its ending.
The State Duma commission recommended that Valery Rashkin be deprived of his parliamentary immunity, and, rest assured, the ardent communist will be deprived of his immunity.
As the hero of the movie "The Big Lebowski" said: "Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you."
Honestly, interest has already cooled down, and the majority, as before, do not care at all whether Rashkin is in the State Duma or not. But those who follow and who are sympathetic to Rashkin, now, of course, are in a hurry to raise him to the shield almost like a prisoner of conscience. And they can be understood.
An offshore company was found at Grudinin. Abyzov has stolen four billion. Valery Fedorovich, an oppositionist and fighter for the truth, has only a shot moose in the trunk of a completely non-parliamentary "fret". The man did not go to the Emirates or Switzerland, and even went hunting, not in a helicopter, but in a national, domestic car. The man was a little mistaken: he shot the animal supposedly by accident - well, it doesn't happen to anyone. And the fact that the media now, competing with each other, are pecking at the communist, trying to get sick more painfully, also speaks more likely in favor of Valery Fedorovich. We'll be cheated and scolded. To understand and forgive - the Russian people are generous.
Now let's slow down and go back to the events of that day.
Rashkin comes to the Saratov region for the sole purpose of hunting.
He has a rifle, thermal imager, documents with him.
And when he was suddenly stopped by the police, the deputy had already done everything he wanted - he obviously rolled (according to the law, a person who refuses to undergo an examination is equated with a drunk one), in the trunk he had a carcass of an elk that had already been butchered.
What happens next?
And then the deputy is lying.
He says that he didn’t drink, but refused to breathe into the tube, because “he doesn’t trust the expertise”.
He says that there was no weapon with him, he found an elk on the road and decided to cut it, because the good would not be lost.
And many more things that are just as implausible.
Then, when the police found both the thrown out rifle and the bag with documents, the deputy had to make excuses.
He recorded a penitential video, where he read a text from a teleprompter, which was written, it seems, by a lover of Prishvin's stories.
“When I reached the place, I found: in a clearing among bumps and high dry grass lies the body of an elk” - and it seemed that just now birch sap would be pouring out, and a kind talking bear would come out of the forest and forgive Rashkin.
And if repentance had happened earlier, there would have been no price to it, but it happened after a shameful lie, after refusing to blow into a tube - after everything.
The people's choice lied, and then pretended that nothing had happened.
And not that it was so unusual for a deputy, but what he saw like this, with his own eyes, is still shocking and even offending.
The deputy who spits on the laws he has adopted, who believes that the police in his country are incapable of honestly conducting an examination, and the voters the next day will forget what he said yesterday, is a deputy from a satirical magazine, a deputy is a parody of himself.
And the fact that the State Duma wants to get rid of this is quite understandable and expected.
You can love Rashkin or not, whether you sympathize with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation or not.
But the fact that Valery Fedorovich buried himself and buried his career with his own hands is obvious even to his most ardent supporters.
Interestingly, by the way, did Rashkin watch Lebowski?
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.